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Flash Flood Warnings in Wharton County, Texas, 2015

26 flash flood warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Wharton County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
26
Busiest month
June11 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
June 17, 201510 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

10 of 26 flash flood warnings covering Wharton County in 2015 had a flash flood report inside them; 2 of 3 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 50 minutes after it went out.

Wharton County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings261062%367%50 min

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX: flash flood warnings1387347%20778%65 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 17, 6:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX2 hr
Apr 17, 9:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX54 min
Apr 17, 10:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX63 min
Apr 17, 11:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX56 min
May 18, 7:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
May 25, 11:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX2 hr
May 26, 12:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
May 26, 1:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX95 min
May 26, 2:30 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyHGX3 hr
May 30, 7:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX81 min
Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Jun 16, 7:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Jun 17, 12:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX113 min
Jun 17, 2:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Jun 17, 4:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX118 min
Jun 17, 6:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX86 min
Jun 17, 6:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX2 hr
Jun 17, 7:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX93 min
Jun 17, 8:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX114 min
Jun 17, 10:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX115 min
Jun 17, 12:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Oct 24, 2:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Oct 24, 5:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Oct 24, 8:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Oct 24, 11:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX2 hr
Oct 25, 1:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.